[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 36 (Thursday, February 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 9080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3483]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than March 18, 2005.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. First Banks, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, and The San Francisco 
Company, San Francisco, California; to acquire 100 percent of the 
voting shares of FBA Bancorp, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, and thereby 
indirectly acquire voting shares of First Bank of the Americas, SSB, 
Chicago, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. Nicholas, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Freedom Bancorporation, Columbia Falls, Montana; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Freedom Bank, Columbia Falls, Montana, a de novo bank.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 17, 
2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-3483 Filed 2-23-05; 8:45 am]
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